Tuesday

It's 22.8 degrees

WKTV predicts that: "On Tuesday, light snow will continue in the morning, but it may end as some sleet as warmer air filters in a couple thousand feet up. We'll see a lull in the action for much of the afternoon, allowing our temperatures to warm up from around 20, well into the 20s. By evening, as a new area of precipitation moves in, we will be on the borderline of rain and frozen precipitation. Given what we know now, this is what we expect. In the Mohawk Valley and western Oneida County, a brief period of freezing rain will change over to plain rain quickly. In the Southern Valleys (Southern Oneida/Herkimer, Otsego, Madison and Chenango Counties), the freezing rain may hang on a little longer, amounting to some minor travel problems in the coldest spots. Everyone should be over to plain rain well before Midnight as strong southerly winds take temperatures into the 30s.

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After starting out at just a degree or two above zero, it warmed up a little bit, yesterday ....


but not enough to make it comfortable for leisurely strolls along Main Street!

"The Caves" in Forge Hollow have an impressive veil of ice ........

....... and the little pond on Gridley Paige Road is frozen, except for the waterfall.

(There is an story on the WKTV website about two youngsters who fell through the ice on a pond in Whitestown, yesterday. There may be ice on our ponds, but it may not be as thick as it looks!)

Snowmobile trails have been marked. All that's needed now is more snow!

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On Babbott Avenue South

Strands of lights make nightimes bright, but daylight displays are just as pretty!

On Sanger Avenue

West Bacon Street

There's one less lamp post on E. Main Street: the one in front of Foodking - which had been damaged a year or so ago by a delivery truck - was felled sometime Sunday night or early Monday morning by, presumably, a similar vehicle.

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We all get these messages - this is one I followed through on!

"I usually read messages like this and delete them or save them thinking 'I should do this' but then of course, I never do. I just finished doing the request in this email and do you know what? I feel better for having done it - probably better than I expect the recipient will feel but then if he feels a part of my merry Christmas wish and THANK YOU, I will be satisfied.

So, when doing you're Christmas cards this year, take one and send it to this address:

A Recovering American Soldier,
c/o Walter Reed Army Medical Center
6900 Georgia Avenue,
Washington, DC 20307-5001

And then if you pass this on and most everyone does it, think how many cards with Christmas wishes and THANK YOUs will be received and read.

And if you can't or don't choose to do this, that's OK too. Merry Christmas !!!!

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FOR THE RECORD

DRIVE SAFELY

and

Have a Great Day!